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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The Senate omnibus insurance bill (SB 714) was sent back to the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee after picking up a bunch of amendments in its second committee, Judiciary. The Banking and Insurance Committee heard the bill for the second time on April 8, 2019. Three more amendments were…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel A tort reform bill dealing with the dangerous instrumentality doctrine moved out of its second Senate committee on April 8, 2019 with one amendment to fix an internal inconsistency in the bill. The bill has one committee left. In order to get the bill out of committee, Sen. Stargel…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The Senate frozen formulary bill (SB 1180) by Sen. Mayfield (R) passed its second committee on April 8, 2019 with a strike all amendment. Under the amended bill, a health insurer or HMO must give a 60 day notice of any change in the drug formulary on the…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel After postponing the vote on the Senate genetic testing bill (SB 258) last week in order to negotiate a compromise with the life industry, Sen. Bean (R), proposed a strike all amendment (#693742) to the bill during the Senate Health Policy Committee hearing on April 8, 2019. The…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel SB 1640, the Senate professional license deregulation package, cleared its second committee of reference on April 8, 2019 with a strike all amendment and an amendment to the strike all. The Senate bill has one committee left. The House bill has cleared all its committee. The professional license…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel SB 7078 is a health care omnibus bill. It is a compilation of many healthcare issues, including a few health insurance related issues and began as a committee bill by the Senate Health Policy Committee. It was approved by its second committee on April 4, 2019 with four…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House and Senate both moved their autonomous vehicle (AV) bills in committee last week. Language setting insurance requirements for on-demand autonomous vehicle networks, which are similar to TNCs, was added to both the House and Senate bills. Up to this point, the bills did not have any insurance…